Just released on Amazon !"The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners: The Buddhist Yogacarabhumi Treatise and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet" (Harvard Oriental Series) (Hardcover) edited by Ulrich Timme Kragh

[WARNING: what follows constitutes a belief on the part of the Writer which may be seen as representing "a View" by those who take great personal pride in being solidly established as "holding no Views".]

The Yogacara as a Buddhist tradition began as a movement devoted to yoga and meditation in the Northwest of India (Gandhara), Afganistan, Pakistan and Kashmir and evolved and prospered between 150 AD and 600 AD which bridged traditonal and Mahayana Buddhism. Building on the emptiness (Madyamaka) school it transformed the Sunyata tradition which rejected the tools and goals of "Hinayana" buddhism but was a project that re-intedgrated all of Buddhism.

Misreprestented as far as their own vision of themselves and their teaching by other Mayanaya voices they became presented in a truncated way when carried into Tibet. Here modern research escavates a powerfull form of Buddhism that represented the peak of thought in India just before it was destroyed. The Yogacara represents a Buddhism that provides a platform for harmony and the possibility of legitamate growth, rather than factionalism and fossilization in Buddhism.

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今以佛眼觀之佛與眾生同住解脫之床。無此無彼無二平等。Now, observing with the eye of the Buddha, both the Buddha and ordinary beings are in the same liberated state. There is neither this nor that: there is only non-duality and identity.- 空海 Kūkai in Unjigi 吽字義 The Meaning of the Letter Hūṃ - Kūkai on the Philosophy of Language by Takagi Shingen and Dreitlein Eijō_______Śrī Singha said to Padmasambhava:Since buddhas and sentient beings are inseparable and the same, it is necessary to respect all sentient beings as being on the same level with the buddhas. Can you? - translated by Malcolm N. Smith